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Esperanza Rising
by Ryan, Pam Munoz
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 043912042X
- ISBN 13
- 9780439120425
- Seller
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Haw River, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Scholastic Inc., 2000. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. SCHOLASTIC edition. Spine, edges, and corners sport mod. rubbing and bumping, a small crease to back cover, and top right corner has a slight curl. Pages are clean.
Synopsis
Esperanza Rising is a 2000 novel by Pam Muñoz Ryan. Set during the time of the American Great Depression, it examines the plight of the Mexican farmworkers as they struggle to adapt and survive in the United States, The novel begins in 1924, right before the Great Depression, caused by the Stock Market Crash of 1929, otherwise known as Black Tuesday. Esperanza Ortega is a young girl, who grows up in Mexico in the 1920's on Rancho de las Rosas, a vineyard her family owns.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Red Owl Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000698
- Title
- Esperanza Rising
- Author
- Ryan, Pam Munoz
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 043912042X
- ISBN 13
- 9780439120425
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- MEXICAN AMERICANS -- CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LABORERS FICTION.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Red Owl Books
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Haw River, North Carolina
About Red Owl Books
I specialize in hand-picked, children's used books. Children's books have always been my passion. Stories about Family Values; Inner Strength & Peace; our Earth Mother & her Creatures; Legends & Folklore of all kinds are a sample of the types of books I want to share. Many adults (including me), need these stories as much as our children do. Touched by the illustrators' beautiful work, the author's heartfelt words- I gather the books that move me and offer them to you.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...